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Have you ever wanted to know what devices were on your network, but didn't want to launch an overly complicated piece of software? When you need that information, and you need it quickly, why not turn to the command line?

Clojure is a dynamic functional general purpose programming language that runs on the Java platform. There’s lots of good reasons to learn Clojure. It offers a modern take on Lisp. There’s an excellent parser library, and a fully featured logic engine. In Clojure, immutability is the default. Once an object or data structure is created, it cannot be changed.

While modern IT environments move towards Linux containers, the need to secure these environments is as relevant as ever. Containers are a process isolation technology. While containers can be a defense mechanism, they only excel when combined with SELinux. Fedora SELinux engineering built a new standalone tool, udica, to generate SELinux policy profiles for containers […]

Mozilla released today the fourth maintenance update to the latest Firefox 66.0 "Quantum" web browser series to address a major issue preventing all types of extensions from running or being installed.

On DL118 - Pop!_OS 19.04, Scientific Linux Ending, SE350 Server By Lenovo, Nvidia GTX 1650, Intel Cascade Lake Benchmarks, Handshake $300,000 To Debian, Epic Game Store on Linux plus more

Using lock files as job control for Linux bash scripts. Learn how to create a basic lock file, locking files with flock and see examples of each.

Linus Torvalds has announced today the release of the Linux 5.1 kernel series, a featureful kernel branch that brings lots of great additions, as well as improvements to existing features.

Regularly updating your CentOS system is one of the most important aspects of overall system security. If you don’t update your operating system’s packages with the latest security patches, you are leaving your machine vulnerable to attacks.

With Linux now serving as the foundation for cloud computing infrastructure, Red Hat is expected to delve deeper into the capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 at the show. The flagship operating system, currently in beta, is well suited to run mission-critical applications on commodity hardware.

There can be so many reasons when you need to record your screen. When I started using Linux, I used to record my screen whenever I had any problem and upload it to Linux communities. Today I sometimes record my screen for demonstration purposes in my tutorials. Similarly, you can record your screen in Linux. In this article, I'm going to mention 5 Best screen recorders in Ubuntu. So let's get started!

Much as I like using AWK, there are some processing jobs with data tables that are easier to do with cut and paste on the command line.

Python is one of the most popular programming languages in use today—and for good reasons: it's open source, it has a wide range of uses (such as web programming, business applications, games, scientific programming, and much more), and it has a vibrant and dedicated community supporting it. read more

openSUSE Leap 15.1 is almost ready for release! However, there is not much buzz around this release. When I tried to establish what was new in Leap 15.1, I started to understand why. Leap 15.1 mostly features minor updates. Still there are updates that are noteworthy. This article describes the new features for openSUSE desktop users.

Fondo is a desktop wallpaper app for Linux where you can search for the most beautiful wallpapers on the Internet from within the app itself and set your preferred image as your desktop wallpaper by just clicking on the image directly. The app is simple and easy to use.

Firefox users are reporting being unable to install new extensions and having existing extensions disabled.

Today is another great day for the freespire development team, as we announce the release of Freespire 4.8. It is our FOSS solution, with no binary-only drivers, multimedia codecs and strictly libre applications, nothing proprietary included. Freespire is released bi-annually and showcases the best of the FOSS and KDE communities.

Conventional wisdom says you can either be a fan of Star Trek or of Star Wars, but mixing the two is like mixing matter and anti-matter. I'm not sure that's true, but even if the laws of physics cannot be changed, these two acclaimed sci-fi series have influenced the open source universe and created their own open source multi-verses. read more

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and perform the first-time setup of Roundcube on Ubuntu 18.04.

When writing Bash scripts you will often need to compare two strings to check if they are equal or not. Two strings are equal when they have the same length and contain the same sequence of characters.

Arch Linux is one of the most beloved Linux distributions for a reason. It puts the control in your hands. Learn how to install it.